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+# Vendored headers are vendored code, to the surprise of absolutely noone.
+# See:
+# <https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/main/docs/overrides.md#vendored-code>
+/include/chroma.h linguist-vendored
+
+# Don't think linguist can detect XML, but let's tell it that the protocols are
+# vendored *anyway*.
+/protocols/*.xml  linguist-vendored